Crime

Extra patrols in Waterford after attempted abduction

The Racine County Sheriff's Department put extra patrols out near schools and was reviewing school video and talking to students Thursday after a 15-year-old Waterford Union High School student reported that someone tried to abduct her, authorities said.

Sheriff's Lt. Steve Sikora said Thursday that no arrests had been made, and that the case remains under investigation.

"We consider it a legitimate incident, and we're following up," Sikora said.

The student escaped unharmed Wednesday after a man tried to drag her into a car, authorities said.

According to the sheriff's office, the girl was walking home shortly before 3 p.m. in the 200 block of Washington St. in Waterford when a man in a silver car drove past her and stopped.

The man got out of the car and approached her, yelling and asking if she had any friends or a boyfriend. The girl said no and started running toward her house when the man grabbed her by her hooded sweat shirt and started pulling her toward the car.

The girl broke free and started screaming and the man got back into the vehicle and fled, the sheriff's office said.

He is described as white, about six feet tall, weighing between 180 and 200 pounds with a scruffy brown beard.

He was wearing blue jeans, a dark green jacket, sunglasses and a baseball cap, and the car is described as a late 1990s or early 2000s silver vehicle, similar to a Buick Regal.